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Fritz Walter
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Fritz Walter, born Friedrich Walter in Kaiserslautern in 1920, was a German association football player and coach. He played as a forward for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, TBVfL Neustadt-Wildenheid, and the Germany men's national association football team. His professional career spanned from 1937 to 1959. Walter participated in World War II and competed in the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cups. He was the sibling of Ottmar Walter.
Walter received several honors, including the FIFA Order of Merit, induction into Germany's Sports Hall of Fame, the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate, and the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt. He stood 175 centimeters tall and spoke German. He died in Enkenbach-Alsenborn in 2002.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1908
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Inter-American economic relations
- Inter-American economic relations, problems and prospects
- Sozial Strategie für Entwicklungsländer
- Die wirtschaftliche und soziale Revolution in den unentwickelten Ländern
- Soziale Strategie für Entwicklungsländer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- England
- Active from
- 1946-12-13
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 29
- Total plays
- 54
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fritz+Walter">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,511x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,458x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,224x
via Crossref · CC0
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- Germany
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Friedrich
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Kaiserslautern
- Place of death
- Enkenbach-Alsenborn
- Sibling
- Ottmar Walter
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 1954 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Germany men's national association football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Germany
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Fritz Walter Trainingslager der Deutschen Fußballnationalmannschaft in der Sportschule Malente (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 175
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- Commons category
- Fritz Walter
- date of birth
- 1920-10-31
- date of death
- 2002-06-17
- end of work period
- 1959-00-00
- start of work period
- 1937-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Friedrich "Fritz" Walter ( German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fʁɪts ˈvaltɐ] ; 31 October 1920 – 17 June 2002) was a German footballer who spent his entire senior career at 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He usually played as an attacking midfielder or inside forward. In his time with the Germany and West Germany national teams, he appeared in 61 games and scored 33 goals, and was the captain of the team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. After his career, he was named honorary captain of the Germany national team.
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